Racist messages were found scrawled on doors at Temecula Valley High School, leading school administrators to conduct an investigation Thursday.Images of one of the messages, which were written on gym doors and use the offensive racial slur commonly known as the “n-word” to describe a student, began circulating on social media Thursday morning.Temecula Valley Unified School District spokeswoman Laura...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Elon Musk is taking on the workhorse heavy pickup truck market with his latest electric vehicle.
The CEO of Tesla will unveil a new electric pickup truck at the Los Angeles Auto Show Thursday night.
With the launch, Tesla is edging into the most profitable corner of the U.S. auto market, where buyers tend to have fierce brand loyalty....
BERKELEY (AP) — A person was injured, and five people were arrested during a demonstration by hundreds of protesters outside a University of California, Berkeley auditorium where conservative commentator Ann Coulter gave a speech, an official said Thursday.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 demonstrators chanted slogans outside the event, where police put up a large water-filled barricade. Some demonstrators harassed people...
BRIAN SLODYSKO
Associated Press
LOS ALTOS HILLS (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is warning Democrats against adopting "purity tests" in the presidential primary and alienating voters needed to defeat President Donald Trump in the general election.
Obama spoke Thursday before about 100 donors during a question-and-answer session with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez in Los Altos Hills, California. The...
MATTHEW PERRONE
AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — In almost any other year it would be hailed as a public health victory: The smoking rate among U.S. high schoolers took its biggest hit ever this year, federal figures show, falling to a new low.
Instead the milestone was relegated to a lone figure at the bottom of a government press release...
EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
Whether you had a gold medal hanging from your neck, were just learning how to stand on a snowboard, or were one of those flustered skiers wondering where all the kids in the baggy pants were coming from, you knew the name "Burton."
Jake Burton Carpenter, the man who changed the game on the mountain by...
CATHY BUSSEWITZ
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — When Deb Fink heard about a company that could drive her 9-year-old son to his after-school program, she balked at the idea of putting him in a car with a stranger. But faced with the unrelenting pressure of driving him where he needed to go in the middle of her workday,...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — They still bite, but new research shows lab-grown mosquitoes are fighting dangerous dengue fever that they normally would spread.
Dengue infections appear to be dropping fast in communities in Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil and Australia that are buzzing with the specially bred mosquitoes, an international research team reported Thursday.
It's the first evidence from large-scale...
REESE DUNKLIN, MITCH WEISS and MATT SEDENSKY
Associated Press
Facing thousands of cases of clergy sex abuse, U.S. Catholic leaders addressed their greatest crisis in the modern era with a promised reform: Mandatory review boards.
These independent panels with lay people in each diocese would review allegations fairly and kindly. And they would help bishops ensure that no abusive priests stayed...